7th sept 6pm - US Embassy - Caged Prisoners - Guantanamo

[Frazzel]

demo outside US embassy organised by Caged Prisoners to protest against Guantanamo

[andyb]

Cynthia McKinney will be attending this demo

[ukginger]

The whole issue drives me nuts

Put it this way, during World War 2, we used to take SS as prisoners, and we put them in P.O.W. Camps. If this really is a War on Terror, then the Taliban ought to be in P.O.W Camps...

No debate . . .

The alternative allows the Taliban to do anything they feel like to anyone they capture.

[jazds]

ukginger,

I'm no fan of the Nazi's but the truth behind those POW's camps has been burried for decades. Following WWII German POW's were kept for years in camps and most had no fixed accomodation, prisoners slept in mud holes in the ground. POW's died in their thousands.

Thousands died in British hands, tens of thousands in the hands of the American's and several hundred thousand in the hands of the French and Soviets - years AFTER the war ended!

Other Losses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bacque

In Other Losses (1989), Bacque claimed that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower deliberately caused the death of 790,000 German captives in internment camps through disease, starvation and cold from 1944 to 1949. In similar French camps some 250,000 more are said to have perished. The International Committee of the Red Cross was refused entry to the camps, Switzerland was deprived of its status as "Protecting Power" and POW's were reclassified as "Disarmed Enemy Forces. Bacque argued that this alleged mass murder was a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949. He laid the blame on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, saying Germans were kept on starvation rations even though there was no food shortage in Europe in 1945-1946.